These sentient intelligent guardians of the sea are deliberately being taken from their homes to be sold into slavery or to be brutally murdered. If we do not care about this we aren't human. Our entire culture of killing on the whole is bringing us down.

Over the weekend, Japanese fishermen from the village of Taiji drove an estimated 200-plus bottlenose dolphins into a local bay made notorious by the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary The Cove. Some 40 were selected for sale and display in marine parks, according to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which monitors the Taiji hunt. Many or most of the others are now likely to be slaughtered, the group …